
ABORIGINES OF THE SOUTH-EAST OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA 465 
Description or Camp SITES, 
Carn Barks (CB, 1). On the clifftop of the main Cape Banks headland 
(in Section 407) is a small sloping windblown hard area which is still profusely 
littered with scattered burnt hearth-stones and the remains of Turbo undulatus. 
Remains of Cellana were also in evidence. It was obvious that this cliff camp 
area had orice been inore extensive, a8 its Lower border is abruptly broken away hy 
collapse of the cliff edge. 
Care Bangs (CB,3.). This camp area is one of special interest as it appears 
to have been mainly devoted to “factory” purposes, Not large in ares, it is 
situated about one mile eouth-east of Cape Banks (Section 500) and oceupies the 
inner slopes of the sand dunes immediately on the shoreline and the narrow 
depression between these dunes and other low bush-covered dunes a few yards 
inland, See sketeh, fig. 4. An important feature associated with this site is 
the vast bank of flint pebbles occupying the higher beach level on the immediate 
sea side of the dunes, The surfaces of several dome-like portions of the sandhills 
were literally packed with fakes and broken pieces of the flint pebbles; and this 
debris was also thickly strewn aver the lower hard hase level of the site, Quite 
an appreciable collection of worked pieces was made on this site, especially of 
microliths, a large number of which were obtained from the slope of one particular 
sand eminence, otherwise there were but few remants of previous aboriginal geru- 
pation beyond the remains of 2 number of fire hearths and scattered molluse shells. 
The main interest of this site ig in its obvious use, right at the sources of the 
flint material, as a manufacturing ‘depot’? whereat the pebble cores were broken 
up into suitable fakes from which implements were either trimmed up on the 
spot, or made at some other permanent camp, 
Boackrenwows Caves Srres. (KBC,). These sites formed a series in the 
vicinity of this small wave excavated point (Section 393 BE). Two small areas, one 
on the top of the low point itself and another on a sandtill slope nearby, are 
similar in a general way to the two Cape Banks sites just described, They pre- 
sented a yariety of Sint flakes and ocvasional microlithic pieces, flint debris, and 
scattered molluse shells, A number of more or less connected sites are situated 
to the immediate sawth-east of the point, and these presented certain features 
different from the above mentioned and in some respects of high importance (ses 
Pl, vii, Fig, 4). Various pieces of evidence suggest that the levels on which these 
partiewar camp relies occur are the result of long periods of change in the 
immediate topography. These areas gave the appearance of there having been 
higher levels, which have been eroded aud reduced, ultimately reaching a hard 
blackish “' floor,’ on which the archaeological material has been deposited as resi- 
dual material, This special feature will be discussed later under geological notes. 
From these level areas larve numbers of worked implements were collected, mostly 
mierolothie forms of the Bondi, Woakwine, and Buandik point type. Hereabouts 
were also found a few poor-grade apecimens of the Bnandik axehead. Larger 
types of implements of the seraper variety were rather sparsely represented. 
Molluse remnants wete sparse, The nature and situation of these implement 
carrying flats suggest the unlikelihond of them having been used as camp sites m 
their present form, A flat, firm area of ground which appears to be damp for 
most of the year is quite unlike the usnal camp site. And as suggested above, it 
seems likely that this strip of shoreline had previously been occupied by sand 
dunes, the slopes of which would haye provided more typical camping places. 
These possible changes involve the interesting geological question af the nature 
and age of changing topography of this particular ocastline. 
